The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-27
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JUNE p. 1881

succeeded in obtaining mail route to the
south via Fort White.
Henry Lenders. of Clay county, has
| grown sugar corn on his place this year that
EQUALS field corn in size, and yet it is as
sweet as its name implies.
The large crops Of peas, the largest corn
crop since the war, have enabled many OF
| Columbia county's farmers to make good
their losses on cotton, and prevented them
! from going in debt.
Oranges in Clay county will be put TO the
! test should the rains much longer continue
! owing to the rush of the sap IN the trees
| and the likelihood of the young fruit burst
| ing their jackets in the vain endeayor TO
| grow fast.
Miss Emma Thursby, who is now in Eu-
rope. has contracted severe cold, which has
! compelled her to cancel her European en-
| gagements. She viii spepd next winter in
/ Florida, part Of which time will be spent
/ at Blue Spring, with her uncle, L. P. Thurs
by.
The steamer Crescent City, of the Beach
| & Miller line, of Palatka, has been Temporal
rily withdrawn from her route and taken to
Jacksonville for repairs: During the with
| drawal of the Crescent City the steamer
Georgia will make the former steamers run
and the Mary Draper takes the Georgea's
/ run.
| A street car company is being organized
| at Palatka to construct line of road be-
! ginning about where the proposed union
| depot will be and running down Water
street to Lemon, and out Lemon to the
| grant line. The money is in sight to build
| this line, and will be available Just as soon
| as charter is granted, which has been ap-
piled for.
At Green Cove daughter of Thomas
1 mis- al nf a0iO oil
hair oil, poured it over her head. and
soon the scalp and her face was fairly burn
| ing from the effects of the oil Mr.. Scott
took the precaution to rub lard over the
head and face of the little sufferer, so that
| by the time he had reached the doctor S
office the lard had had the necessary sooth-
! ing effect and the danger was over.
Fisherman johnson, of Green Cove, made
a big haul one day last week opposite Green
| Cove, and near Florence landing. On pull
! ing in his net, fifteen foot alligator and a
eleven foot shark were wrapped up in the
meshes OF the net. stiff in death. These
monsters had become entangled. and, in
their scuffie TO get out had more and more
entangled themselves until they were COM
| pletely wrapped up in the net, when they
| were drowned.
The Seville saloon has been closed by
| Charleston whisky houses, and the whisky
| the past. There has always been at that
| place strong element among the older
| class to stamp out all prospects of a saloon
ever opening there The efforts of the ladies
| Of that section have been an important
factor in preventing the sale of whisky
there, aud through their counter petition,
/ with the help of the Seville Company, they
came near defeating the petition upon which
I the present license was granted, and it is
hardly possible that another petition,
signed by majority of the electors of that
district, will ever be presented again.
Green Cove Spring: On recent inspec-
/ ton of the farm of one of our progressive
| farmers, Mr.. j. G. Batten, we had the OPP
pOrtunity Of viewing an elegant patch of
tobacco, which, by the way, is a new acqui-
| sition TO the various crops grown in this
| vicinity. There were some 800 stalks in the
| patch referred to, and they stood full feet
| high, with leaves one foot in width by two
1 feet long The seed were obtained
| from North Carolina, and were planted
during the month Of January Mr.. Batten
| is familiar with the growth of tobacco,
being a native of North Carolina, and he is
positive that his tobacco will compare
| favorably with any he has ever seen, and
that the 800 stalks viii produce $50 worth
of good tobacco. So far he has ''wormedn
and ''suckered" his tobacco but once, which
| is an item of considerable Importance, and
but few of the leaves of the plants show
| signs Of attack by the worms.
Green Cove Spring: Bee culture, while
| yet in its infancy in this State, is destined
to play an important part in the rank and
| file of Florida industries The fact that
| our forests are alive with swarms of these
| busy little workers, and that they lay up
large stores of sweets in their native haunts,
| is proof positive that they are here at home,
and that being domesticated they will great
| ~ increase the supply of honey. Some few
| of our farmers hive 'swarmsn now and
then in the rude old gum" and in the
early summer ''smoke them out" and amply
repay. themselves with honey for the little
| trouble they may have had to secure the
bees. To show what source of revenue
bees might bring in TO the farmer, we might
cite the robbing of seven of these hives by
]. c. Batten recently. After reserving a
fair allowance of honey for his family, Mr..
Batten brought over 100 pounds into mar
| ket, for which he received S23 S0-pretty
| good pay for the trouble of ''hiving" the
bees in rough boxes.
A year ago no one in Lake City dreamed
| of the establishment of cigar factory A
few of the sagacious farmers of the vicinity
were experimenting with tobacco, but they
were generally regarded as visionaries Mr.
| Geer especially was denominated the ito
bacco crank But he cared as little for
| their contempt then as he does for praise
now. eHe went straight ahead and succeed
| ed in developing an intense interest among
| the people in reference to tobacco culture,
which eliminated in the planting
| of quantity of tobacco seed,
! which has produced mod
erately large crop of the FLORIDA Havana
of excellent quality when cured. Mr.. Geer
established his factory last February in the
two-story building on the south side of the
court house square. There was no demand
| for Florida cigars; he set to work to develop
| it. After various Heterogeneous he finally
succeeding in placing his orders on a perma-
nent basis, and now, he has demands for
more than he can supply, and will double
| his present force within two or three weeks
The Palatka bridge question has been
| definitely settled, that is so far as the ter
mini part Of it is concerned, and is as fol-
lows: The eastern end will start from a
| point 200 yards north of Harris grove and
| come directly across the river to a point
! just north of the present dock of the Jack
| sonville, Tampa and Key West railway
| The bridge will have a draw of $50 feet,
with passage on either side of the draw
| pier of eighty and ninety feet, which will
be ample room for the largest steamers to
pass through. There will be a wagon drive
of seven feet on either side of the bridge.
Both the Palatka and st. Augustine, and
the st. Johns and Halifax railways will cross